오가와 요코(小川洋子)의『완벽한 병실(完璧な病室)』 고찰－‘나’를 반추하는 세 공간을 중심으로－

Abstract

Ogawa Yoko prioritize space when writing the novel. In 「 Perfect hospital room」there are set three scenes. The heroine ‘I’ is a housewife with no child. The first scene is a hospital room to spend with her brother. The brother would be an incurable disease, he was admitted to the hospital where I work at part-time job. The hospital room of her brother is perfect. In perfect room, the brother is dying. It is unspeakable sadness to ‘I’. So there was no choice but to say it’s perfect for me. Secondly, there is a house that ‘I’ spent with her mother. The mother was sick mentally and she was killed in robbery of bank. Before her death, the house was messy and overflowing with garbage. The perfect hospital room reminded me of the dirty house for childhood. ‘I’ was running away through marriage from the house as throwing her away. But a husband of ‘I’ is busy everyday, so he and ‘I’ can meet hardly. Absence of family makes me distorted nature. The third one is a special space that S doctor is with me. S doctor is the attending physician of my brother. S and ‘I’ have met formally, but begin to meet at a specific place special way. The place that embraced him become a special metamore phose space. S takes after the first love opponent of ‘I’. The memories of first love by S, tied to the one with the word as ‘yearning’ of brother and mother. Each space has been set up with the three best places to reflect on my inside in each situation. Also it is tied to one of the storage space by S who become a memory store.